Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

Post by dylan604 » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

immibis wrote: post #70

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Clearly, they educate us into why they think their opponent is bad. /s Reform should state that campaign ads can only discuss what the candidate's positions are, and not be able to say anything about their opponent. If you can't tell me what your plans are and all you can do is say why the other position is wrong, then you're not showing me you'd be an effective person to hold office. However, that's what your websit…

Also that they have to actually be your positions and you can't just promise one thing and do a completely different thing.

Post by ruszki » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 8:26 PM UTC

jopsen wrote: post #49

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> Campaigners say the law will cause a harmful loss of information I find this quote from the article amusing. If EU political ads are anything like USA political ads, the objective of the ad is rarely, if ever, to educate the audience. The objective of most political ads is to confuse, disorient, and distort the narrative.

I don't think the political ads are like in the US. Not at all. Also the scale is no where near. TV2 in Denmark just ran an article saying that the 24 politicians and parties buying the most ads bought a total of 250k ads ahead of this policy coming into effect. Note that same month last year the spend was ~1/3. I know Denmark is small, ~5-6M, but that's doesn't seem like a lot of money.

Post by docdeek » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

beezlebroxxxxxx wrote: post #77

jopsen wrote: post #49

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I don't think the political ads are like in the US. Not at all. Also the scale is no where near. TV2 in Denmark just ran an article saying that the 24 politicians and parties buying the most ads bought a total of 250k ads ahead of this policy coming into effect. Note that same month last year the spend was ~1/3. I know Denmark is small, ~5-6M, but that's doesn't seem like a lot of money.

The amount of money in US politics and elections in particular is staggering when you think about it. In 15 weeks Kamala Harris' campaign spent $1.5 billion. That's just insane. Especially when you find out that a lot of that spend goes through "media consultancies" and PR firms...run by former DNC staffers. And the same is true for the RNC. The two parties are basically a giant revolving door and network of jobs wit…

Post by lowbloodsugar » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

psb wrote: post #73

> Polish hard-right member of the European Parliament Piotr Müller said the rules are an example of over-regulation gone wild This is almost an endorsement of the rules to me.

Post by guiambros » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 8:30 PM UTC

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Sounds like a good way to trap everyone with incumbent corporations. No quitting your corporate job to start your own business, you’re not allowed to advertise.

You are conflating slapping ads in people's faces with making your business listed on the white/yellow/whatever pages and allowing people to find you without being a jerk.